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COLUaSIA. KO. 65211 :
75th Year No. 190 Good Morning! It's Sunday, April 24, 1983 6 Sections 70 Pages 50 Cents II I I MBMMIllllllMMllMIIMMMMMMMIlMmlMIMlMMM IMIMMMIIIMIIMMMMMmiMnBM- MMMMMnnMMMimiMIMMMm, MMMIlT- M
House sets stage for future budget negotiations
By Dean Kahn and Joe Lambe
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A battle appears in- evita- ble
in the House this week when it takes
up a proposed $ 2.3 billion state revenue bud-get.
On one aide are lawmakers intent on push-ing
through more money for schools. On the
other are legislators determined to defend
the bare- bon- es budget sent to the floor by the
House Budget Committee.
And waiting downfield is Senate Appro-priations
Committee Chairman Edwin
Dirck, D- S- t. Ann, who warns that even the
bare- bon- es budget is too fat.
Dirck last week accused House Speaker
Robert Griffin, D- Camer-on,
of planning to
railroad through a highly inflated budget
that Republican Gov. Christopher Bond then
would have to take the politically unpopular
step of cutting.
" But the Senate won't go along with it,"
Dirck said of the alleged political games-manship.
" We will pass a balanced budget "
The confrontation shaping up in the House
will set the stage for future budget negotia-tions
between the House and Senate. Leading
the charge of education's champions is Rep.
Gary Sharpe, D- Hann-ibal.
The chairman of
the House Elementary and Secondary Edu-cation
Committee plans to ask for another
$ 34 million m funding for public schools; an
allocation of $ 6S9 million was approved by
the budget committee
The $ 34 million would replace money Bond
withheld last fall from school appropriations
for the currentfiscal year.
Sharpe does not view his plan as a budget- bustin- g
maneuver. Instead, he considers it a
means of demonstrating appropriate regard
for school funding before the budget is sent
to the Senate.
Colleges and universities will get help
from Rep. Harry Hill, D- Novm-ger.
He plans
to ask for $ 16 million more than the budget
committee's $ 355.7 request for higher educa-tion.
Hill's proposal would bring higher educa- tions- ' s
share of state funds up to the same
level it was to receive for the current year
before the governor ordered that 5 percent
be withheld last fall when it became obvious
that state income would not keep pace with
its planned spending.
under Hill's proposal, the University sys-tem
would receive $ 6 million more than the
$ 163.4 million approved by the committee.
And University Hospital would have $ 520,000
tacked onto its recommended $ 12.5 million
budget
Griffin said he expects the education
forces to win the House floor fight. But Rep.
Marvin Proffer, D- Jacks- on, House Budget
Committee chairman, said Hill and Sharpe
may succeed only in raising false hope
among the state's educators. Any increase in
school budgets in the House likely would be
beaten down in the Senate or withheld when
the governor realizes once more that pro-posed
expenditures outweigh income, Prof-fer
said.
" We're m worse shape than January,"
said Proffer, adding that the state has suf-fered
increases in the cost of its welfare pro-grams
and unexpected setbacks in court that
will inflate expenditures during the coming
fiscal year. These include:
A March court ruling that could add up
to $ 31 million to the costs of Medicaid re-imbursements
to private nursing homes The
ruling also squelched a plan to free up anoth-er
$ 20 million to deal with state problems
The money would have come from a plan to
substitute federal money for state funds in
certain mental health programs
y State officials estimate from $ 8 million
to $ 10 million will be needed next year for the
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
program
The state could be saddled with from $ 17
million to $ 77 million to cover the cost of a
new school desegregation program plan in
St. Louis A federal judge is expected to de-cide
on the plan within the next few weeks
The governor has submitted an emer-gency
funding request for the nursing home
reimbursements program and AFDC. The
request is for $ 5.8 million m state and federal
funds to carry the programs through June.
Those, Proffer says, have thrown a wrench
into projections on how much money will be
available to finance state programs next
year
In addition, the Bond administration has
said it will have to delay up to $ 100 million in
state payments beginning as early as July
That money would be used to cover the
state's daily and monthly cashflow needs
State officials say the $ 100 million delay
will be necessary because lawmakers failed
to approve the governor's request for ex-panded
short- ter- m borrowing authority in
time for a June 7 special election.
Those money problems give heightened ur-gency
to the coming House debate one un-anticipated
by legislators displeased by the
efforts of colleagues determined to carve out
more money for education
Rep Bud Barnes, R- Kirkwo-od,
a veteran
of the House Budget Committee, is especial-ly
adamant
" Nobody cares about anyone else," he
complained. " They're doing it without re-spect
for the budget"
More money for education is an idle
dream, Dirck said " It's not going to hap-pen
"
Ocean dream
Local woman's brother makes
record- breakin- g Atlantic trip
ByLycHaLocMSn
Mlssourlan staff writer
Some people say dreams are for
those whosleep.
But hen , Wyne Dickinson fell
asleep on his dream cruise, he
crashed into the Irish coast and
wrecked a boat he had worked on for
10 years. He was upset but un-harmed
remarkable since he just
had spent 142 days crossing the At-lantic
Ocean in a boat not big enough
to stand in.
His boat was not all he destroyed.
He shaved three inches off the world
record for the smallest boat to cross
the Atlantic west- to- eas- t.
Dickinson's sister, Belinda Dickin-son,
is chief resident at University
Hospital's ear, nose and throat clin-ic.
She tells her brother's story amid
a clutter of news clippings from
around the nation that tell the same
tale. Often she quips, " I'm biased, of
course."
Ms. Dickinson says her 39- year--
old
brother's dramatic landing March 20
on Aranmore Island in Ireland satis-fied
an itch he claimed to have had
ever since childhood " But he never
said anything to me about it," she
says.
The family always has been at
home around water, she says, but it
was a shock when her brother said
he wanted to sail across the Atlantic
in a handmade boat. Dickinson's
mother, Peggy Dickinson, feared for
his life. His father, Navy officer
John Dickinson, flatly said it could
not be done.
But Dickinson ignored the warn-ings
and 10 years ago began building
his boat. He drew on his lifetime
knowledge of sailing and modified
his craft many tunes as he beseiged
libraries for books on solo sailing.
He cbristened'the 8- fo- ot ll- irtfh- l- ong
fiberglass creation " God's Tear."
He was so engrossed with the pro-ject
that three years ago he quit his
job as a computer technician to work
on the boat full time.
He installed a Citizens' Band radio
and electronic navigational equip-ment,
connecting both to a central
battery and shielded the equipment
in plexiglass. The finishing touch
a huge painting of an eagle on the
stern brought the actual cost of his
dream to $ 27,000.
" I was convinced it would never
sink once I got inside it," Ms Dickin-son
says. " He filled it with water,
and it soil wouldn't sink."
Dickinson sailed out of Hull Har-bor,
Mass., on Oct 20. He expected
to reach England in about 70 days.
Two weeks later, a storm off the Ca-nadian
coast destroyed his commu-nications
equipment For the rest of
the voyage, he reverted to the an-cient
navigational system of using
the stars, horizon and time of year to
plot his course.
When nobody heard from her
brother for several months, Ms.
Dickinson says her mother began re-ceiving
cards of condolence. But on
Jan. 25, a Panamanian freighter saw
a flare and found Dickinson about
100 miles north of where he was sup-posed
to be. He just wanted direc-tions
to Great Britain.
He reached the Irish coast March
19, but the grip of the current kept
him from landing, Ms. Dickinson
says. He set the automatic steering
to take hira to Scotland and went to
sleep. But the wind shifted, and by
the time he awoke he was careening
at 40 knots about 45 mph toward
the rocky coast.
" It was a remarkable thing to do,
and what's even more remarkable is
Belinda Dickinson and one of the many newspaper clippings about her brother H... n8.
the way it ended," Ms. Dickinson
says. Her brother left the fragments
of the boat and stood for the first
time in five months then climbed
a 300- fo- ot cliff and hiked 1M: miles to
a lighthouse where the guardian was
making an unscheduled mid- da- y
check.
" You can just say ' coincidence' so
many times," Ms. Dickinson says.
" Wayne left and he said, ' I'm going
to make it.' He had a communication
with God, and he knew he was pro-tected.
He's always believed in one
God and one direction." She says her
brother believes God led the way
across the ocean.
Ms. Dickinson and her mother
jomed Dickinson in Ireland after his
landing. The pan-- had to fight their
way through the reporters to get to
him " The English papers went wild
over him," Ms. Dickinson says.
They were joined by NBC, CBS, the
BBC, the Irish Live Independent
Network and the Good Morning
America show The press coverage
lasted five days.
Ms. Dickinson is critical of the
press' casual treatment of her broth-er.
" Sixty years ago it was like
Charles Lindbergh, a man conquer-ing
the impossible. Now it's like
fine, but what's on ' Dukes of
Hazzard' tonight'' ' she says
But she says it does not really mat- -
ter " He did it for himself," she
adds " It was better for nun to have
a dream than to have no dream, like
most people "
On Aranmore Island, children
crowded around Dickinson and
begged for stories of his adventure,
Ms Dickinson says The residents
are writing a ballad about the Amer-ican
sador who landed on their piece
of the world
" That's what lasts," she says
Doctors disagree on use
of drugs for ear disease
By Adrians Reyneri
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON Doctors usually
treat one of the most common dis-eases
of childhood otitis media
with effusion, or " fluid ear" with
antihistamines and decongestants.
But researchers at the University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
have found that these drugs are no
more effective than placebos in cur-ing
the ailment
Not everyone agrees with their
findings, however. Other doctors
have criticized the report, published
in the Feb. 10 issue of the New En-gland
Journal of Medicine, for ignor-ing
that the drugs may mak chil-dren
more comfortable whife they
are getting better. Doctors also have
called the study too narrow to pro-duce
broad conclusions.
The accumulation of Quid in the
middle ear can result in mild hear- -
ing loss. Even modest hearing im-pairment
can be a severe handicap
to young children, who are learning
more rapidly than at any other time
in their lives.
Often a child suffering from the
disease will turn silent and avoid
communication, said Dr. Ralph
Naunton, director of communicative
disorders at the National Institute of
Neurological and Communicative
Disorders and Stroke. The institute
funded the $ 322,040 three- yea- r study
at the University of Pittsburgh.
Because the disease is so preva-lent,
its costs are significant. Treat-ment
including1 diagnosis, drugs
and surgery costs between $ 1 bil-lion
and $ 2 billion each year, said
See DOCTORS, PagalOA
1FElfiS7
8: 30 a. m. The Human Race V,
originating at Memorial Stadi-um
3 p. m. The University Sym-phonic
Band, Jesse Auditori-um,
free
7 p. m-- " Morning Glory" and
" The Lion in Winter," Memorial
Union auditorium, tree.
8 p. m. " Decameron," Ellis L-ibrary
auditorium free.
Spring ahead
It's that time of the year, and
if you have not set your clocks
ahead an hour, you better do it
now because Daylight Savings
Time went Into effect at 2 01
am
--
i - -
i Inside
Business......... ............... 7- 6- B
Classified . 5- 6- B
Opinion 4A
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t
Questions persist as Murray trial nears
By Mark Weaver
Mlssourlan staff writer
On the surface all is quiet, but un-derneath
a controversy is brewing
over the many unanswered ques-tions
in the Jan. 18 shooting death of
Darryl Murray.
The trial date for Robert Wayne
Murray, 24, who is charged with
manslaughter in his adoptive fa-ther's
death, wdl be set on May 2 by
Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley.
Murray originally was charged by
Prosecutor Joe Moseley with second- degr- ee
murder, but a grand jury in-dicted
him Feb. 18 on the lesser
charge.
After the jury handed down the
manslaughter charge, Moseley was
contacted by members of the Mur-ray
family who favored a more se-rious
charge, Moseley said. Darryl
Murray's parents, Gene and Joyce
Murray, 1 Spring Valley Road, and a
foster son, Stephen Boy er, presented
unspecified evidence to Moseley and
his investigator, Bob Muse, Moseley
said
But Moseley said the family's in-formation
is insufficient to warrant
a change in the charge
" The information I have received
from them doesn't change the case
very much," Moseley said.
If nine of 12 grand jurors do not
find sufficient evidence to hand
down a second- degre- e murder in-dictment,
Moseley said, it is unlikely
that a trial jury would convict Rob-ert
on the charge. Nine grand jury
votes are necessary to issue an in-dictment,
while a unanimous vote
would be needed for conviction in a
trial court.
" It was a grand jury decision,"
Moseley said. " I have my doubts
that a pent jury would be any more
harsh than a grand jury."
Moseley added that he is empow-ered
to change the charge if the evi-dence
justifies it.
Since Murray's death, the prosecu-tion
and defense have compiled an
impressive stockpile of paperwork
Because of the volume of evidence
and reports involved in the case,
Tun Harlan, Robert Murray's attor-ney,
has asked Conley not to sched-ule
the trial before May 15, accord-ing
to court records
The police report alone runs 140
pages, and several depositions have
been taken " Evidence seized from
the home of Darryl Murray consists
of several thousand documents and
items," Harlan's continuance mo-tion
reads
In addition to evidence stemming
from the slaying, Harlan has sub- poen- ed
reports, memorandums and
statements collected by police Sgt
Caroll Highbarger in the investiga-tion
of a child sex abuse charge
against Darryl Murray in 1973 High-barger
was the prosecutor's investi-gator
at that time. The charge was
dropped by former Prosecutor Milt
Harper because of a lack of evi-dence.
The Murray family has not located
See MURDER, PagetOA

Iwl2 LLaY UL! C
COLUaSIA. KO. 65211 :
75th Year No. 190 Good Morning! It's Sunday, April 24, 1983 6 Sections 70 Pages 50 Cents II I I MBMMIllllllMMllMIIMMMMMMMIlMmlMIMlMMM IMIMMMIIIMIIMMMMMmiMnBM- MMMMMnnMMMimiMIMMMm, MMMIlT- M
House sets stage for future budget negotiations
By Dean Kahn and Joe Lambe
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY A battle appears in- evita- ble
in the House this week when it takes
up a proposed $ 2.3 billion state revenue bud-get.
On one aide are lawmakers intent on push-ing
through more money for schools. On the
other are legislators determined to defend
the bare- bon- es budget sent to the floor by the
House Budget Committee.
And waiting downfield is Senate Appro-priations
Committee Chairman Edwin
Dirck, D- S- t. Ann, who warns that even the
bare- bon- es budget is too fat.
Dirck last week accused House Speaker
Robert Griffin, D- Camer-on,
of planning to
railroad through a highly inflated budget
that Republican Gov. Christopher Bond then
would have to take the politically unpopular
step of cutting.
" But the Senate won't go along with it,"
Dirck said of the alleged political games-manship.
" We will pass a balanced budget "
The confrontation shaping up in the House
will set the stage for future budget negotia-tions
between the House and Senate. Leading
the charge of education's champions is Rep.
Gary Sharpe, D- Hann-ibal.
The chairman of
the House Elementary and Secondary Edu-cation
Committee plans to ask for another
$ 34 million m funding for public schools; an
allocation of $ 6S9 million was approved by
the budget committee
The $ 34 million would replace money Bond
withheld last fall from school appropriations
for the currentfiscal year.
Sharpe does not view his plan as a budget- bustin- g
maneuver. Instead, he considers it a
means of demonstrating appropriate regard
for school funding before the budget is sent
to the Senate.
Colleges and universities will get help
from Rep. Harry Hill, D- Novm-ger.
He plans
to ask for $ 16 million more than the budget
committee's $ 355.7 request for higher educa-tion.
Hill's proposal would bring higher educa- tions- ' s
share of state funds up to the same
level it was to receive for the current year
before the governor ordered that 5 percent
be withheld last fall when it became obvious
that state income would not keep pace with
its planned spending.
under Hill's proposal, the University sys-tem
would receive $ 6 million more than the
$ 163.4 million approved by the committee.
And University Hospital would have $ 520,000
tacked onto its recommended $ 12.5 million
budget
Griffin said he expects the education
forces to win the House floor fight. But Rep.
Marvin Proffer, D- Jacks- on, House Budget
Committee chairman, said Hill and Sharpe
may succeed only in raising false hope
among the state's educators. Any increase in
school budgets in the House likely would be
beaten down in the Senate or withheld when
the governor realizes once more that pro-posed
expenditures outweigh income, Prof-fer
said.
" We're m worse shape than January,"
said Proffer, adding that the state has suf-fered
increases in the cost of its welfare pro-grams
and unexpected setbacks in court that
will inflate expenditures during the coming
fiscal year. These include:
A March court ruling that could add up
to $ 31 million to the costs of Medicaid re-imbursements
to private nursing homes The
ruling also squelched a plan to free up anoth-er
$ 20 million to deal with state problems
The money would have come from a plan to
substitute federal money for state funds in
certain mental health programs
y State officials estimate from $ 8 million
to $ 10 million will be needed next year for the
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
program
The state could be saddled with from $ 17
million to $ 77 million to cover the cost of a
new school desegregation program plan in
St. Louis A federal judge is expected to de-cide
on the plan within the next few weeks
The governor has submitted an emer-gency
funding request for the nursing home
reimbursements program and AFDC. The
request is for $ 5.8 million m state and federal
funds to carry the programs through June.
Those, Proffer says, have thrown a wrench
into projections on how much money will be
available to finance state programs next
year
In addition, the Bond administration has
said it will have to delay up to $ 100 million in
state payments beginning as early as July
That money would be used to cover the
state's daily and monthly cashflow needs
State officials say the $ 100 million delay
will be necessary because lawmakers failed
to approve the governor's request for ex-panded
short- ter- m borrowing authority in
time for a June 7 special election.
Those money problems give heightened ur-gency
to the coming House debate one un-anticipated
by legislators displeased by the
efforts of colleagues determined to carve out
more money for education
Rep Bud Barnes, R- Kirkwo-od,
a veteran
of the House Budget Committee, is especial-ly
adamant
" Nobody cares about anyone else," he
complained. " They're doing it without re-spect
for the budget"
More money for education is an idle
dream, Dirck said " It's not going to hap-pen
"
Ocean dream
Local woman's brother makes
record- breakin- g Atlantic trip
ByLycHaLocMSn
Mlssourlan staff writer
Some people say dreams are for
those whosleep.
But hen , Wyne Dickinson fell
asleep on his dream cruise, he
crashed into the Irish coast and
wrecked a boat he had worked on for
10 years. He was upset but un-harmed
remarkable since he just
had spent 142 days crossing the At-lantic
Ocean in a boat not big enough
to stand in.
His boat was not all he destroyed.
He shaved three inches off the world
record for the smallest boat to cross
the Atlantic west- to- eas- t.
Dickinson's sister, Belinda Dickin-son,
is chief resident at University
Hospital's ear, nose and throat clin-ic.
She tells her brother's story amid
a clutter of news clippings from
around the nation that tell the same
tale. Often she quips, " I'm biased, of
course."
Ms. Dickinson says her 39- year--
old
brother's dramatic landing March 20
on Aranmore Island in Ireland satis-fied
an itch he claimed to have had
ever since childhood " But he never
said anything to me about it," she
says.
The family always has been at
home around water, she says, but it
was a shock when her brother said
he wanted to sail across the Atlantic
in a handmade boat. Dickinson's
mother, Peggy Dickinson, feared for
his life. His father, Navy officer
John Dickinson, flatly said it could
not be done.
But Dickinson ignored the warn-ings
and 10 years ago began building
his boat. He drew on his lifetime
knowledge of sailing and modified
his craft many tunes as he beseiged
libraries for books on solo sailing.
He cbristened'the 8- fo- ot ll- irtfh- l- ong
fiberglass creation " God's Tear."
He was so engrossed with the pro-ject
that three years ago he quit his
job as a computer technician to work
on the boat full time.
He installed a Citizens' Band radio
and electronic navigational equip-ment,
connecting both to a central
battery and shielded the equipment
in plexiglass. The finishing touch
a huge painting of an eagle on the
stern brought the actual cost of his
dream to $ 27,000.
" I was convinced it would never
sink once I got inside it," Ms Dickin-son
says. " He filled it with water,
and it soil wouldn't sink."
Dickinson sailed out of Hull Har-bor,
Mass., on Oct 20. He expected
to reach England in about 70 days.
Two weeks later, a storm off the Ca-nadian
coast destroyed his commu-nications
equipment For the rest of
the voyage, he reverted to the an-cient
navigational system of using
the stars, horizon and time of year to
plot his course.
When nobody heard from her
brother for several months, Ms.
Dickinson says her mother began re-ceiving
cards of condolence. But on
Jan. 25, a Panamanian freighter saw
a flare and found Dickinson about
100 miles north of where he was sup-posed
to be. He just wanted direc-tions
to Great Britain.
He reached the Irish coast March
19, but the grip of the current kept
him from landing, Ms. Dickinson
says. He set the automatic steering
to take hira to Scotland and went to
sleep. But the wind shifted, and by
the time he awoke he was careening
at 40 knots about 45 mph toward
the rocky coast.
" It was a remarkable thing to do,
and what's even more remarkable is
Belinda Dickinson and one of the many newspaper clippings about her brother H... n8.
the way it ended," Ms. Dickinson
says. Her brother left the fragments
of the boat and stood for the first
time in five months then climbed
a 300- fo- ot cliff and hiked 1M: miles to
a lighthouse where the guardian was
making an unscheduled mid- da- y
check.
" You can just say ' coincidence' so
many times," Ms. Dickinson says.
" Wayne left and he said, ' I'm going
to make it.' He had a communication
with God, and he knew he was pro-tected.
He's always believed in one
God and one direction." She says her
brother believes God led the way
across the ocean.
Ms. Dickinson and her mother
jomed Dickinson in Ireland after his
landing. The pan-- had to fight their
way through the reporters to get to
him " The English papers went wild
over him," Ms. Dickinson says.
They were joined by NBC, CBS, the
BBC, the Irish Live Independent
Network and the Good Morning
America show The press coverage
lasted five days.
Ms. Dickinson is critical of the
press' casual treatment of her broth-er.
" Sixty years ago it was like
Charles Lindbergh, a man conquer-ing
the impossible. Now it's like
fine, but what's on ' Dukes of
Hazzard' tonight'' ' she says
But she says it does not really mat- -
ter " He did it for himself," she
adds " It was better for nun to have
a dream than to have no dream, like
most people "
On Aranmore Island, children
crowded around Dickinson and
begged for stories of his adventure,
Ms Dickinson says The residents
are writing a ballad about the Amer-ican
sador who landed on their piece
of the world
" That's what lasts," she says
Doctors disagree on use
of drugs for ear disease
By Adrians Reyneri
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON Doctors usually
treat one of the most common dis-eases
of childhood otitis media
with effusion, or " fluid ear" with
antihistamines and decongestants.
But researchers at the University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
have found that these drugs are no
more effective than placebos in cur-ing
the ailment
Not everyone agrees with their
findings, however. Other doctors
have criticized the report, published
in the Feb. 10 issue of the New En-gland
Journal of Medicine, for ignor-ing
that the drugs may mak chil-dren
more comfortable whife they
are getting better. Doctors also have
called the study too narrow to pro-duce
broad conclusions.
The accumulation of Quid in the
middle ear can result in mild hear- -
ing loss. Even modest hearing im-pairment
can be a severe handicap
to young children, who are learning
more rapidly than at any other time
in their lives.
Often a child suffering from the
disease will turn silent and avoid
communication, said Dr. Ralph
Naunton, director of communicative
disorders at the National Institute of
Neurological and Communicative
Disorders and Stroke. The institute
funded the $ 322,040 three- yea- r study
at the University of Pittsburgh.
Because the disease is so preva-lent,
its costs are significant. Treat-ment
including1 diagnosis, drugs
and surgery costs between $ 1 bil-lion
and $ 2 billion each year, said
See DOCTORS, PagalOA
1FElfiS7
8: 30 a. m. The Human Race V,
originating at Memorial Stadi-um
3 p. m. The University Sym-phonic
Band, Jesse Auditori-um,
free
7 p. m-- " Morning Glory" and
" The Lion in Winter," Memorial
Union auditorium, tree.
8 p. m. " Decameron," Ellis L-ibrary
auditorium free.
Spring ahead
It's that time of the year, and
if you have not set your clocks
ahead an hour, you better do it
now because Daylight Savings
Time went Into effect at 2 01
am
--
i - -
i Inside
Business......... ............... 7- 6- B
Classified . 5- 6- B
Opinion 4A
People 1-- 3C
Record... 9A
Sports .... 1- 4- B
t
Questions persist as Murray trial nears
By Mark Weaver
Mlssourlan staff writer
On the surface all is quiet, but un-derneath
a controversy is brewing
over the many unanswered ques-tions
in the Jan. 18 shooting death of
Darryl Murray.
The trial date for Robert Wayne
Murray, 24, who is charged with
manslaughter in his adoptive fa-ther's
death, wdl be set on May 2 by
Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley.
Murray originally was charged by
Prosecutor Joe Moseley with second- degr- ee
murder, but a grand jury in-dicted
him Feb. 18 on the lesser
charge.
After the jury handed down the
manslaughter charge, Moseley was
contacted by members of the Mur-ray
family who favored a more se-rious
charge, Moseley said. Darryl
Murray's parents, Gene and Joyce
Murray, 1 Spring Valley Road, and a
foster son, Stephen Boy er, presented
unspecified evidence to Moseley and
his investigator, Bob Muse, Moseley
said
But Moseley said the family's in-formation
is insufficient to warrant
a change in the charge
" The information I have received
from them doesn't change the case
very much," Moseley said.
If nine of 12 grand jurors do not
find sufficient evidence to hand
down a second- degre- e murder in-dictment,
Moseley said, it is unlikely
that a trial jury would convict Rob-ert
on the charge. Nine grand jury
votes are necessary to issue an in-dictment,
while a unanimous vote
would be needed for conviction in a
trial court.
" It was a grand jury decision,"
Moseley said. " I have my doubts
that a pent jury would be any more
harsh than a grand jury."
Moseley added that he is empow-ered
to change the charge if the evi-dence
justifies it.
Since Murray's death, the prosecu-tion
and defense have compiled an
impressive stockpile of paperwork
Because of the volume of evidence
and reports involved in the case,
Tun Harlan, Robert Murray's attor-ney,
has asked Conley not to sched-ule
the trial before May 15, accord-ing
to court records
The police report alone runs 140
pages, and several depositions have
been taken " Evidence seized from
the home of Darryl Murray consists
of several thousand documents and
items," Harlan's continuance mo-tion
reads
In addition to evidence stemming
from the slaying, Harlan has sub- poen- ed
reports, memorandums and
statements collected by police Sgt
Caroll Highbarger in the investiga-tion
of a child sex abuse charge
against Darryl Murray in 1973 High-barger
was the prosecutor's investi-gator
at that time. The charge was
dropped by former Prosecutor Milt
Harper because of a lack of evi-dence.
The Murray family has not located
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